AdrenaCard Pharmaceuticals is a Minneapolis-based startup developing what it touts as a small, easy-to-use epinephrine injector. As with many young medical device companies, it’s founders have had to rely on contracted talent. AdrenaCard’s CTO Chris Kuehn had a few tips and lessons learned to share this morning at the Design of Medical Devices Conference at […]
ProMed Pharma, DSM partner to use polymers to deliver drugs
ProMed Pharma and DSM Biomedical recently announced a business development partnership focused on polymeric drug delivery. The collaboration combines ProMed’s micromolding and extrusion capabilities in conjunction with DSM’s biomedical polyurethanes, polyurethaneureas, and bioerodible amino acid-based polyesteramides. Get the full story on our sister site Medical Design & Outsourcing.
West turns to Swissfillon for clinical filling of SmartDose drug delivery platform
West recently announced that it is forming a partnership with Swissfillon AG in which Swissfillon will provide fill-finish capabilities to customers using West’s proprietary SmartDose drug delivery platform. The partnership, which West announced last month at PharmaPack 2019 in Paris, will enable West to deliver filled Daikyo Crystal Zenith cartridges for the SmartDose wearable injector. […]
Phillips-Medisize is offering connected health data services: Here’s how
One of the world’s largest medical device contract manufacturers, Phillips-Medisize is making a business play to provide the technological back end for connected drug delivery devices. Phillips-Medisize used to be all about the housings, assembly and packaging that went into finished drug-delivery devices. Electronics was something that other contract manufacturers did. Within a few years, […]
Phillips-Medisize is expanding in Wisconsin
Phillips-Medisize, a Molex company, has broken ground on a new manufacturing facility in Hudson, Wis., on the eastern end of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area. The 34-acre location at the St. Croix Meadows development will support at least 230,000 square feet of manufacturing space for FDA-regulated medical device products, Phillips-Medisize announced yesterday. After construction is complete […]
How Covestro polycarbonate is enabling syringe innovation
Covestro officials are boasting how their Apec 1745 high heat polycarbonate was the material of choice for Gerresheimer AG’s new tamper-evident luer lock closure for syringes. In the growing prefilled syringes market, the adapter for screwing in the needle and the syringe cap plays a key role when it comes to ensuring ease of use and reliable dosage, […]
How suppliers are taking drug-delivery tech to the next level
Medical device industry suppliers and outsourcers are helping to enable the latest drug-delivery tech. Drug-eluting technologies are moving beyond stents, thanks in part to the development of polymeric hydrogels engineered to respond to a range of different physical and chemical stimuli. Medtech innovators have figured out how to use hydrogels as components of micro-shells or […]
PCI Pharma Services to buy Sherpa Clinical Packaging
PCI Pharma Services has agreed to acquire clinical supply services provider Sherpa Clinical Packaging, the companies announced today. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. San Diego–based Sherpa is a provider of clinical trial material management services for clinical studies phases I through IV, with expertise in packaging, labeling, distribution, storage and returns and […]
Wacker wins FDA nod to manufacture active ingredient in Chiesi’s thrombolysis drug
Wacker Biotech said today that it won FDA approval to start producing reteplase, the active ingredient in Chiesi‘s thrombolysis drug, Retavase. The medication, which is designed to treat acute myocardial infarction in adults, will be marketed in the U.S. by Chiesi and made in Wacker’s Germany-based plant. Wacker reported that it landed approval to commercially […]
Catalent dishes out $950m for biologics manufacturer
Catalent said today that it plans to purchase Cook Pharmica for $950 million in cash. Cook Pharmica, a unit of privately-held medical device maker Cook Group, is a contract manufacturer that develops biologics-based drug compounds. The deal readies Catalent for an expansion of its biologics biz. Catalent will have access to Cook Pharmica’s Indiana-based facility […]
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